[Shermy]

Last two posts 1. Dr. Byrne asks why no tests were done on the mail box hairs, 2. Later story reveals the hairs didn’t match.

Which brings the bigger issue, why were the hairs mentioned the released papers at all? Or were they for a court warrant application and the inspectors misled the judge with innuendo tht the hairs were Ivins?

[Allan]

Since all this ancient anthrax discussion is being regurgitated once again
perhaps I should stress once more
that producing and handling highly aerosolized 1 trillion spores per gram powdered anthrax
that floated like smoke
would necessarily require the use of a BL4 lab.

To quote Wikipedia:

Biosafety Level 4

This level is required for work with dangerous and exotic agents
that pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections.

(btw
this is a good, interesting article
with a list of BL4 labs in the USA and outside.)

Did Ivins have access to a BL4 lab?
If so
how could he have used it
without attracting the attention of dozens of his co-workers?

More interesting question:

Could anthrax of this quality have been made
in any BL4 lab
whose existence was not secret??

[Khan Noonian Singh]

<<Last two posts 1. Dr. Byrne asks why no tests were done on the mail box hairs, 2. Later story reveals the hairs didn’t match.

Which brings the bigger issue, why were the hairs mentioned the released papers at all? Or were they for a court warrant application and the inspectors misled the judge with innuendo tht the hairs were Ivins?>>

May-be to remind people of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski when revealed that hairs are not of Ivins?

'Kaczynski described in his writings how he placed two human hairs he found in a bus station into a bomb "to deceive the policemen, who will think that the hair belongs to whoever made the device," KPIX reported.'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/29/national/main2213782.shtml